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Chris T-T

9 Green Songs

9 Green Songs captures the vulnerable fury that bore the grassroots, folk-influenced approach of 9 Red Songs (an album that still resonates 10 years later), adding a modern Twitter feed tick-list of ideas, charged by the energy of his recent work with the Hoodrats.

If anything T-T is becoming lyrically more radical. 'Love Me, I'm a Liberal' brutally indicts clicktivist sensibilities and "me, me" sensitivity of hipsters on social media, displaying their colours and doing not much else. 'Cutting A Longbow' recalls the spoken word live favourite 'M1 Song', in sound if not in content. Even then, this vocal diatribe is driven by pummelling percussion, giving it a rare menace. This contrasts wonderfully with 'A Garden On The Motorway'; an upbeat fairytale of green-fingered warfare on concrete commuting.

After two excellent, tonally different albums - the treatise on the heart and gorgeous wordplay of Love Is Not Rescue and the full-tilt tumultuous 90s alt-rock instrumentation with the Hoodrats, of The Bear - with 9 Green Songs we finally get more of what brought a lot of people to his music in the first place: Chris T-T stands up to shout loudly again, looks outwards, like a warm, terrible, friendly menace, who sees both dystopia and redemption on the horizon.

"The genius of Chris T-T's songwriting is his ability to humanise even the most outlandish conceits, until they seem instead like brilliant ideas nobody else would've come up with" - The Guardian

"Chris T-T is a man that we can trust with our lives. If he was standing for Mayor of London, I'd vote for him" - Steve Lamacq

Tracklist

• 1 Worst Governmen tEver [Explicit]
  2 Love Me, I'm a Liberal [Explicit]
  3 Hallucinating
  4 Cutting a Longbow [Explicit]
  5 A Hard Rain [Explicit]
  6 This Is What Drowning Is Like
  7 A Garden on the Motorway [Explicit]
  8 Anyone's Song
  9 Admit Nothing
  10 The Border Crossing [Explicit]